President Obama had a $30,000-a-head fundraiser scheduled for this evening at an apartment belonging to a Google executive in the Four Seasons hotel in San Francisco. That’s kind of close to AT&T Park, however, so they decided to move it down to the organizer’s home in Palo Alto, 30 miles away. In other news, there’s too much money in baseball.

For the last inning, the Giants and Phillies would like to ask your help. Would the people in the ballpark clap your hands. And those at the fundraiser, if you’ll just rattle your jewelry.

P.S. Sorry if this comment is not up to my usual standards, but I just finished econ PhD midterms, which means I’m currently in the process of getting hammered at 5 in the afternoon. As such, I’m not really into the whole “thinking” and “being intelligent” thing right now. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Working hard and partying hard….good stuff. Once you sober up, tell me how we’re getting out of this economic mess and find me a better job (that I can still blow off during the day by religiously reading/commenting on HBT).

Also funny about the Palo Alto fundraiser. Although jewelry isn’t the big status symbol here. It’s mega yachts. I’m surprised that they didn’t move the fundraiser to one of Ellison’s monster boats and park it outside AT&T. Although even the “small” one (he has 3) probably wouldn’t fit in McCovey cove.

But knowing Palo Alto, there will be a smaller but more enthusiastic and highly visible Whitman fundraiser across the street. Fiorina is no longer welcome in Palo Alto, of course (HP reference).